Managed Metapopulations: Do Salmon Hatchery ‘Sources’ Lead to In-River ‘Sinks’ in Conservation?

Rachel C. Johnson; Peter K. Weber; John D. Wikert; Michelle L. Workman; R. Bruce MacFarlane; Marty J. Grove; Axel K. Schmitt

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028880

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Managed Metapopulations: Do Salmon Hatchery ‘Sources’ Lead to In-River ‘Sinks’ in Conservation?

Rachel C. Johnson ,

* E-mail: rbarnettjohnson@usbr.gov

Current address: Bay Delta Office, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Sacramento, California, United States of America

¶Previously published as Rachel Barnett-Johnson.

Affiliation Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Peter K. Weber,

Affiliation Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, United States of America
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John D. Wikert,

Affiliation Anadromous Fish Restoration Program, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Stockton, California, United States of America
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Michelle L. Workman,

Current address: Anadromous Fish Restoration Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Stockton, California, United States of America

Affiliation East Bay Municipal Utility District, Lodi, California, United States of America
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R. Bruce MacFarlane,

Affiliation Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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Marty J. Grove,

Current address: Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Axel K. Schmitt

Affiliation Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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Managed Metapopulations: Do Salmon Hatchery ‘Sources’ Lead to In-River ‘Sinks’ in Conservation?

Rachel C. Johnson,
Peter K. Weber,
John D. Wikert,
Michelle L. Workman,
R. Bruce MacFarlane,
Marty J. Grove,
Axel K. Schmitt

Published: February 8, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0028880

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The following article represents some of the media coverage that has occurred for this paper:

Publication: University of California Santa Cruz
Title: “Hatchery fish mask the decline of wild salmon populations - UC Santa Cruz”
http://news.ucsc.edu/2012...

Publication: New York Times Blogs
Title: “Wild Salmon Are Not Holding Up, Study Finds - NYTimes.com”
http://green.blogs.nytime...

Publication: Eureka Alert
Title: “Hatchery fish mask the decline of wild salmon populations”
http://www.eurekalert.org...

Publication: Science 2.0
Title: “Wild Salmon Numbers Are Dropping, But Science Can Fix It”
http://www.science20.com/...

Publication: The Bay Citizen
Title: “Effort to Boost Salmon Numbers Weakens Wild Fish - The Bay Citizen”
http://www.baycitizen.org...

Publication: Eureka Alert
Title: “Hatchery fish mask the decline of wild salmon populations”
http://www.eurekalert.org...

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Publication: On Earth
Title: “Bait and Switch: Hatchery Salmon Mask Population Crash of Wild Fish | OnEarth Magazine”
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